View Mike Tyson Fights Gorilla PNG. Mike tyson has admitted that he once offered a zookeeper $10k to fight a silverback gorilla. The boxing legend became the youngest heavyweight champion aged 20 back in 1986.

Mike Tyson Reveals How He Once Tried To Pay To Fight A Silverback Gorilla
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The legendary former heavyweight champion told the when we got to the gorilla cage there was one big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. Combine mike tyson's boxing skills and mind, and give him gorilla arms to boot, yikes! Something that boxing champion, mike tyson, didn't take into account when he offered a zoo $10.000 for a very strange request.

They were so powerful but their eyes were.

Add to that the muscle mass and the skeleton that's evolved to support it and even if tyson managed to land a punch it wouldn't do much damage. Because the gorilla's fighting responses are instinctual, not trained, they will be faster than the human's. Who's crazy enough to fight a gorilla, let alone pay for it? The former heavyweight champion of the world is a known animal lover and recently made the news discussing his past owning exotic animals, staking his claim as america's original 'tiger king'.